Downstream news
BPGIC wins award for best terminals of the year
A subsidiary of Brooge Energy, BPGIC, has won an international award for the best terminals of 2021 in the Middle East.
LNG terminal study in Albania underway
Excelerate Energy, ExxonMobil and the Republic of Albania have signed a MoU to conduct a feasibility study for the potential development of an LNG Project.
ADNOC LNG awards rejuvenation FEED contract to Worley
ADNOC LNG has awarded a rejuvenation FEED contract to Worley to extend the life cycle of two LNG trains located in ADNOC’s Das Island Facilities.
ADNOC and PETRONAS collaborate
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) with United Arab Emirates-based Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and Masdar to pursue collaborations across the energy value chain.
TERNA awards LNG contract to MAN Energy solutions
Greek construction company TERNA S.A. has awarded MAN Energy Solutions the contract for the engineering of, and supplying services to, an LNG truck-loading infrastructure project.
Breakthrough crude-to-chemicals refining technology developed
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in partnership with Aramco, have demonstrated a technology that results in the stable conversion of crude oil to light olefins in a single-reactor system.
GlobalData: China to account for half of Asia’s liquids storage
According to GlobalData, China is expected to lead the liquids storage capacity growth in Asia, contributing about 50% of the total capacity growth between 2021 and 2025.
Data-driven reliability
Pinnacle looks at how to use Big Data to model degradation in reformer units.
Rystad Energy: Gas flaring at US oil refineries reached highest on record
A Rystad Energy report shows that natural gas flaring at US non-upstream onshore oil and gas facilities reached an 18-month high in February 2021.
Approval granted for Puerto Solo energy hub port complex
Colombia's National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) has approved an initial 30-year port concession to Puerto Solo, a wholly owned subsidiary of SeaOne.